corps

See also: Corps

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French corps, from Latin corpus ‎(“body”).

Pronunciation

Singular

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA^(key): /kɔː/
• (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA^(key): /kɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōr, IPA^(key): /ko(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /koə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Plural

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA^(key): /kɔːz/
• (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA^(key): /kɔɹz/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: kōrz, IPA^(key): /ko(ː)ɹz/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /koəz/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
• Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

corps ‎(plural corps)

1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
   • diplomatic corps
   • White House press corps

Translations

battlefield formation

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 軍團, 军团 ‎(gwan¹ tyun⁴)

  Mandarin: 軍團 (zh), 军团 (zh) ‎(jūntuán)

• Finnish: armeijakunta (fi)
• French: corps (fr) m
• German: Korps (de) n

• Hungarian: hadtest (hu)
• Irish: cór m
• Japanese: 軍団 (ja) ‎(ぐんだん, gundan)
• Khmer: កងអង្គភាពទ័ព ‎(kong ang pheap toap)
• Korean: 군단 (ko) ‎(gundan)
• Russian: ко́рпус (ru) m ‎(kórpus)

group of people

• Estonian: korpus
• Finnish: -kunta (fi)
• Greek: σώμα (el) n ‎(sóma)

• Hungarian: testület (hu)
• Russian: ко́рпус (ru) m ‎(kórpus)
• Swedish: -kår (sv) n

Anagrams

• crops
• sproc

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French

Picture dictionary

1= tête 2= visage 3= cou 4= épaule 5= poitrine, sein 6= nombril 7= ventre 8= aine 9= pénis 10-14= jambe 15-19= bras

Etymology

From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus ‎(“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *krep- or *kʷerp- ‎(“body”). The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ/

• audio

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Noun

corps m ‎(plural corps)

1. (anatomy) body
2. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
3. (military) corps

Anagrams

• porcs

External links

• “corps” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).